Should you gift vouchers? And how do you wrap them?

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Slightly inspired by another thread (and sitting about snacking as our christmas isn't happening until Thursday!) where lots of posters thought vouchers were a rubbish gift. Our family are always gifting experiences and vouchers and love them... but we make a fuss about how they are wrapped, is this the difference?

So, are vouchers a good/bad gift? And how do you wrap them?

Under our tree (not to be opened until Thursday :( )there's:

a helicopter voucher in an exploding box (it turns inside out with a (bad) origami on the top and some puns stuck to the sides)

A guidebook to do a walking holiday

A box of pop up cardboard cubes that will pop up when opened, with a picture of a location on the back

Interested in more ideas, and whether people really don't like vouchers!

I don’t like giving vouchers but when I do I try to wrap them up with a small themed present . One year I did Harry Potter studio tour tickets and wrapped them with a small plush Hedwig . This year I’ve given a friends child Waterstone vouchers ( requested ) and wrapped with a bookmark .

No, vouchers aren’t a proper gift.

You’re giving them an errand to run.

Vouchers are the perfect gift.

I hand them over in an envelope.

Vouchers for friend's adult children (for their stores of choice) and for my friend who is struggling a bit money-wise . Vouchers in their Christmas cards and a smaller present to go with them .

I like vouchers, providing they're for something that the recipient can and will is easily. We all have so much stuff already. And it sounds like your family are particularly into experience vouchers, so who cares what anyone else thinks.

Vouchers are the worst gift - it's like money but less flexible, has an expiry date and you lose it if the store goes bust. Just give money if you must!

As for money, I've seen it wrapped into a toilet roll inside and wrapped like a cracker.

I'd only give vouchers if they're requested. I love them because I'm picky. A bad present usually still an errand - I'll need to exchange it or regift.

I wrapped a tenner for someone once (their specific choice) by rolling it into a tiny tube, wrapping it in pretty paper and tying a bow round it. She was very happy with it. I got a voucher this year for a piercing I want. I asked for it. This is the first year EVER that DH has got me entirely things I like!

I used t on pray for book tokens as a kid.

Rereading your OP, I think experience vouchers are slightly different as you have actually chosen the gift for them to use in their own time. They are ok IMO.

Shop vouchers are just naff though.

I do this too.

Eg Chelsea Flower Show tickets in with an amaryllis bulb.

Or gardening voucher in with a gardening book.

My DS (now 24) doesn't like "things" he's been like this for years . He saves , we joke that he's a hybrid of Gollum my precious and Scrooge .

I buy him a present so he has something (this year was a top for the gym)

It is honestly the best thing for him to get a money transfer . Why buy him stuff he doesn't want ?

One year (when he was younger ) I bought one of those "named" books ( Barry Saves Christmas or Matthew , Santa Claus Needs Your Help ) and some snazzy paperclips and pinned £100 in £10 notes inside .

This year the cats gave him a £20 note (badly wrapped as tradition) because they CBA looking online , but they're cats . They're far too busy to shop

My DD loves presents and does a List and I buy her surprises too ,